Slyrydes lastly launch their debut album, and it has been effectively definitely worth the wait.
Introducing Slyrydes
Slyrydes are a critically acclaimed post-punk band from Galway Metropolis, Co. Galway, Eire. They met in a late-night bar the place singer Rafto labored.
In 2013, they finally started taking part in music collectively, and it rapidly turned one thing very actual, with the eagerness from these late-night music debates naturally translating right into a cohesive sound.
Nevertheless, the trail to their debut album has been something however clean. In a single interview, Fuz from the band describes a journey of chaos and particular person self-disruption with rehab, arrests and combating threatening to knock them off-course. Fortunately, they finally managed to knuckle down.
In 2019, Slyrydes launched their debut single, which was instantly championed by Paul McCloone (The Undertones) on his nationwide radio present on At present FM.
A yr later, that they had launched 5 singles into the world. Buzz and momentum was rising, and plans have been brewing for some main reside exhibits. Then COVID hit, and like so many artists on the time, the enforced hiatus threatened their very future.
Now, after years of non-public progress and collective survival, Slyrydes have made it to the beginning, with the discharge of their debut album, What Occurs If You Get Comfortable.
“From the start, we stated we wished to make necessary music, the type that mattered to individuals,” says Eoin Reilly. “We actually lived it. Now we’re in a more healthy place to place this music out and provides it the platform it deserves”
Slyrydes – What Occurs If You Get Comfortable
“It is a visceral, unflinching, and trustworthy file that grabs you from the outset and refuses to let go.”
It feels becoming that the album opener is ‘Psychological Well being’, the discharge of this album would possibly simply be the last word cathartic remedy for a band that overtly admits to fighting varied psychological well being points and self-destructive tendencies.
We’re very trustworthy with our lyrics and music. We’d be taking the piss if we ignored how we felt and began singing about browsing or that paint by numbers individual loves one other individual shit.” [Fuz]
The album continues with the previous single, I Declare To Be Clever. You’ll be able to nearly really feel the stress and private nervousness constructing on this monitor, earlier than it could actually now not be contained. The video stays probably the most visually highly effective I can bear in mind seeing since beginning this weblog.
Boy In The Debs Swimsuit is a poignant and frantic seek for a lacking college graduate. The following three tracks, Procrastination Is A Concern Of Failure (PIAFOF), Ahern, and Stutter, are all beforehand unreleased tracks.
PIAFOF is one other deeply private monitor that hints on the mindset of a band that has steadily tetered on the brink. Ahern is a jittery, intense affair that tackles the essence of being Irish.
Ahern, that means “descendant of Eachthighearna” is an Irish surname. Variants of the surname embody Ahearn(e) and Hearn(e). There are 2718 individuals with the surname Ahern in Eire, and 1404 individuals in the UK.
Lengthy-term followers of the band will recall former singles, Harmful Animals and Out Endurance. Each sound as contemporary and thrilling as they did on first launch. It is a band unafraid to discover the darker edges of contemporary life.
The lead single from the album is monitor 11 ‘Well-known To 5 Million’, a music about what comes after fleeting fame. Of the brand new tracks, that is an apparent standout second.
“I hope you retain your head and nonetheless bear in mind me. You’re well-known to 5 million.”
The album ends with ‘Simply For Present’, a robust and direct reminder that suicide impacts lives, and the deaths from suicide in Eire must be handled as greater than chilly statistics.
What Occurs If You Get Comfortable is a 12-track album cast in real fireplace. Six of its tracks have by no means been heard earlier than. It’s a file that asks massive questions however doesn’t flinch from the solutions.
“We’ve bled for this file actually and figuratively,” Mark Raftery “It’s been an extended highway, however possibly we would have liked that point aside to determine who we actually are. This album is our story.” Mark Comer
With plans to convey their explosive reside present again on the highway, Slyrydes are able to make the assertion they at all times promised, and we will’t wait to see what comes subsequent. This band stay necessary.
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